Friday, May 27, 2022

Citation.js Version 0.5 and a 2022 update

Version 0.5.0

Version 0.5.0 of Citation.js was released on April 1st, 2021.

BibTeX and BibLaTeX

After the update to the Bib(La)TeX file parser, described in the earlier BibTeX Rework: Syntax Update blog post, the mapping of BibTeX and BibLaTeX data to CSL-JSON was also updated. The mapping is now split in two, one for BibLaTeX (which is backwards-compatible with BibTeX) and one for BibTeX. The output formats were also updated to output either BibTeX-compatible files or BibLaTeX-compatible files. The most common difference there is the use of year and month versus date respectively. In addition, a number of updates were made to the file parser.

Core changes

In the Grammar utility class, bugs were fixed an behavior was updated to better account for the Bib(La)TeX parser. Some of the code for correcting CSL-JSON was also updated, including moving the code correcting results of the Crossref API from the DOI plugin to the core module as CSL-JSON from the API may end up in Citation.js through other methods than the DOI plugin. Earlier in 0.5 development, some of the HTTP handling code was also updated for increased stability.

2022 update

v0.5.1v0.5.7

The version released since v0.5.0 mostly contain bug fixes and small enhancements. The latter includes some more descriptive errors in certain places, as well as mapping some non-standard fields in Bib(La)TeX and RIS.

New site design

The design of the Citation.js site was updated for the first time since 2018. The changes were detailed in the recent Citation.js: New site blog post.

New plugins

New plugins for the refer file format (plugin-refer) and the RefWorks tagged format (plugin-refworks) were released.

More coming

More changes are expected, including more long-awaited output formats, better mappings for software and datasets, and more work on machine-readable mappings.

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